Meaning & use
corduroys
Trousers made from corduroy, a thick cotton fabric with narrow ridges.
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He wore brown corduroys and a wool sweater to the autumn picnic.
Her old corduroys had worn thin at the knees after years of use.
A note on using this word
Corduroys is a plural noun used like 'trousers' or 'pants'; you cannot count 'a corduroy' to mean one pair.
Words with a similar meaning
cords
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